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CN’s Q4 grain handle down in ‘challenging conditions’

By Country Guide Staff January 23, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. income tax reform more than offset “challenging” conditions, including reduced grain handle, in Canadian National Railway’s fourth fiscal quarter. Montreal-based CN on Tuesday reported net income of $2.611 billion on total revenues of $3.285 billion for its fourth quarter ending Dec. 31, up from $1.018 billion on $3.217 billion in the year-earlier Q4. The […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Grain handle down in CP’s ‘best-ever’ fourth quarter

By Country Guide Staff January 19, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. income tax reform and significant increases in non-grain traffic more than offset a dip in Canadian Pacific Railway’s grain handle in its fourth quarter of 2017. Calgary-based CP on Thursday reported net income of $984 million on $1.713 billion in gross revenues in what it described as its “best-ever” fourth quarter, up from $384 […] Read more

CMC’s booth at the GEAPS 2017 show in Kansas City. (CMCiel.com)

Crops, Machinery

AGI buys bin sensor, fertilizer blending system makers

By Country Guide Staff January 17, 2018

Reading Time: < 1 minute Best known as the parent for several Canadian and U.S. manufacturers of grain handling and storage equipment, Ag Growth International is expanding its tech portfolio. Winnipeg-based AGI announced Wednesday it has bought Burnaby, B.C.-based CMC Industrial Electronics and Iowa-based Junge Control (JCI) for undisclosed sums. CMC, which formed in 1997 and has facilities at Burnaby […] Read more

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Agrium, Potash Corp merger shouldn’t have much of an impact yet

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm January 5, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada – Farmers shouldn’t be too concerned yet that the recent Agrium, Potash Corp of Saskatchewan merger will cause an increase in the price of fertilizer, at least according to the president of one provincial producer group. “(The merger is) a hard one to find a whole bunch of negatives or positives about it. […] Read more

Sulphur piles in North Vancouver on Dec. 18, 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)

Crops, Reuters

Price spike in sulphur leaves farmers, fertilizer makers sour

By Rod Nickel December 19, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg | Reuters — Phosphate fertilizer producers such as Mosaic Co. and PotashCorp are paying the highest prices in two years for sulphur, a key ingredient in their farm products, but farmers are the ones absorbing the extra cost. Higher sulphur costs, the result of tight global supplies and strong Chinese demand, come as fertilizer […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Dreyfus to sell Australian fertilizer unit to Agrium

By Reuters December 12, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Paris/Winnipeg | Reuters — Global commodity trader Louis Dreyfus has agreed to sell its fertilizer business to Canada’s Agrium as it continues an overhaul in response to tough agricultural markets. Louis Dreyfus is to sell Macrofertil Australia, which has annual sales of around US$120 million, to Agrium’s Australian unit Landmark Operations in a deal expected […] Read more

One of the monitoring stations used for the Upper Medway Creek Priority Subwatershed Study (PSP).

Crops

From field to stream

Conservation authorities are working more closely with agriculture on watershed management. Have they found a model that will work?

By Ralph Pearce December 7, 2017

Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s no secret that agriculture is focused more than ever on the management of soil fertility as well as on balancing inputs with crop demand, which means keeping nutrients where they belong. Phosphorus usage in particular has become a favourite topic of discussion, both on conference agendas and around the tailgates of pickups on the […] Read more

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P+H plans new east-central Alberta elevator

By Country Guide Staff November 21, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg grain and agrifood firm Parrish and Heimbecker is set to reinforce its recent arrival in the east-central Alberta retail market with a new grain elevator. Privately-held P+H announced Tuesday it will build a new 46,000-tonne capacity grain elevator and crop input centre at Viking, about 120 km southeast of Edmonton. The Viking site will […] Read more

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Agrico buys stake in Alberta input retail chain

By Country Guide Staff November 14, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes The wholesale crop input arm of Quebec’s La Coop federee has expanded its retail reach further west on the Prairies with a stake in a central Alberta input retailer group. Agrico Canada, part of the Quebec federation of ag co-ops since 2011, last week announced a deal to buy a 50 per cent interest in […] Read more

Bridgeland, a UFA/CHS joint venture, operates this fertilizer plant at the RedTail Business Park south of Sexsmith, Alta. (Video screengrab from Bridgeland.ag)

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CHS sells stake in Bridgeland input venture to UFA

By Country Guide Staff October 31, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes On the heels of its move to sell its wholly-owned crop input stores in Alberta and Saskatchewan, U.S. ag co-operative CHS is selling its remaining Alberta ag retail asset. Alberta farmer co-op UFA (United Farmers of Alberta) announced Tuesday it’s buying CHS’s interest in the two firms’ joint ag retail venture, Bridgeland Limited Partnership, for […] Read more

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CN’s Q4 grain handle down in ‘challenging conditions’

Grain handle down in CP’s ‘best-ever’ fourth quarter

AGI buys bin sensor, fertilizer blending system makers

Agrium, Potash Corp merger shouldn’t have much of an impact yet

Price spike in sulphur leaves farmers, fertilizer makers sour

Dreyfus to sell Australian fertilizer unit to Agrium

From field to stream

P+H plans new east-central Alberta elevator

Agrico buys stake in Alberta input retail chain

CHS sells stake in Bridgeland input venture to UFA

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